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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Niels Bohr

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

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